Readings
In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parshah is divided into seven readings, or עליות, aliyot. In the masoretic text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parshah Eikev has six "open portion" (פתוחה, petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ (peh), roughly equivalent to the English letter “P”). Parshah Eikev has several further subdivisions, called "closed portions" (סתומה, setumah) (abbreviated with the Hebrew letter ס (samekh), roughly equivalent to the English letter "S") within the open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) divisions. The first open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) divides the first reading (עליה, aliyah). The second open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) goes from the middle of the first reading (עליה, aliyah) to the middle of the second reading (עליה, aliyah). The short third open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) is contained within the second reading (עליה, aliyah). The fourth open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) starts in the second reading (עליה, aliyah) and contains all of the third reading (עליה, aliyah). The fifth open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) corresponds to the fourth reading (עליה, aliyah). And the sixth open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) spans the fifth, sixth, and seventh readings (עליות, aliyot). A closed portion (סתומה, setumah) corresponds to the fifth reading (עליה, aliyah). The sixth reading (עליה, aliyah) is divided into two closed portion (סתומה, setumah) divisions. And the short seventh reading (עליה, aliyah) corresponds to a final closed portion (סתומה, setumah).
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